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Rising incidence and risks of floods in urban Ghana: Is climate change to blame?

Overview of attention for article published in Cities, February 2022
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  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (68th percentile)

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Article details
Title
Rising incidence and risks of floods in urban Ghana: Is climate change to blame?
Published in
Cities, February 2022
DOI 10.1016/j.cities.2021.103495
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Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 202 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 14 7%
Student > Master 14 7%
Lecturer 13 6%
Unspecified 12 6%
Student > Bachelor 12 6%
Other 27 13%
Unknown 110 54%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 18 9%
Unspecified 12 6%
Engineering 11 5%
Environmental Science 10 5%
Arts and Humanities 8 4%
Other 25 12%
Unknown 118 58%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 6. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 27 January 2023.
All research outputs
#8,433,405
of 32,572,863 outputs
Outputs from Cities
#733
of 2,418 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#136,605
of 558,813 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Cities
#14
of 44 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 32,572,863 research outputs across all sources so far. This one has received more attention than most of these and is in the 74th percentile.
So far Altmetric has tracked 2,418 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 10.8. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 69% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 44 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 68% of its contemporaries.